National Security
Building Blocks
The obsession that is preventing a nuclear deal with Iran.
BY YOUSAF BUTT | JANUARY 22, 2013
Chemical Reaction
How the United States should deal with Assad.
BY MICHAEL EISENSTADT | JANUARY 18, 2013
Turing Test
Can you beat the father of artificial intelligence at Monopoly?
BY MICHAEL PECK | JANUARY 18, 2013
Counter Intelligence
Was David Petraeus the last smart general in the U.S. military?
BY ROSA BROOKS | JANUARY 17, 2013
Mutiny in Kabul
An exclusive report on the troubled security team at America's most important embassy.
BY ADAM ZAGORIN | JANUARY 17, 2013
The 'Dynamite' Pentagon Interview Behind 'Zero Dark Thirty'
Michael Vickers 'delivered' for the movie.
BY NATE JONES | JANUARY 17, 2013
Suiting Up
What the United States is doing to prepare for chemical war in Syria.
BY R. JEFFREY SMITH, THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY | JANUARY 17, 2013
Does the NRA Want to Turn America Into Afghanistan?
Because that's where we're headed.
BY JASON DEMPSEY | JANUARY 16, 2013
The Three Most Dangerous Things About Threat Lists
What the pundits and analysts don't tell you.
BY AMY ZEGART | JANUARY 16, 2013
Behind the Rhetoric
The Pentagon starts to manage the defense drawdown.
BY GORDON ADAMS | JANUARY 15, 2013
The 3:00 AM Call
Why aren't we asking Hagel about the stuff the SecDef actually does?
BY MICAH ZENKO | JANUARY 15, 2013
For Defense, Less Beef, More Chuck
Why Hagel's critics need to turn down the heat.
BY JOHN ARQUILLA | JANUARY 14, 2013
Zero Dark Torture
Viewers and critics have been shocked by Zero Dark Thirty's depiction of enhanced interrogation techniques. But, if anything, the film goes way too easy on the CIA.
BY LAURA PITTER | JANUARY 11, 2013
An Army of None
Why the Pentagon is failing to keep its best and brightest.
BY TIM KANE | JANUARY 10, 2013
Through a Glass Darkly
The bin Laden film has something for everyone -- but not what we need most.
BY DAVID COLE | JANUARY 10, 2013
Channeling Ike
The national security memo that Eisenhower would write Hagel.
BY MICHAEL J. MAZARR | JANUARY 10, 2013
Why the Left Should Embrace John Brennan
The architect of the drone program is the only one who can fix it.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JANUARY 9, 2013
Back to the Future
Missile defense doesn't work, so of course Congress is doubling it.
BY JEFFREY LEWIS | JANUARY 9, 2013
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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